Offenders books

This book explains and theorises the ways in which family policy instruments come to shape the routine care arrangements...  Read More >>

This book examines the role of religion and spirituality in desistance from crime and disengagement from gangs....  Read More >>

This book brings together an international group of experts to present the latest psychosocial and developmental...  Read More >>

Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice...  Read More >>

This book compiles research on female crime and delinquency in Portugal in order to critically and reflectively...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1974, Deviance and Social Control reveals how the American approach to deviance has been...  Read More >>

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The Roadmap for the Development of Prison-based Rehabilitation Programs focuses on the three core areas of education,...  Read More >>

Over the past few decades, there has been a sharp increase in the number of elderly prisoners, and hence a rise...  Read More >>

Drawing on research from New York State, the contributors argue that, while massive decarceration is taking place,...  Read More >>

Sex, Crime, Drugs, and Just Plain Stupid Behaviors: The New Face of Young Adulthood in America is written for students,...  Read More >>

Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach offers the practitioner a novel framework for understanding the complex and...  Read More >>

Assessing Risk: A Relational Approach offers the practitioner a novel framework for understanding the complex and...  Read More >>

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern...  Read More >>

"More than half the states in this country have legislation on sex offenders that distinguishes between those whose...  Read More >>

Youth justice has always focused on criminal justice but this work argues that taking a social justice approach...  Read More >>

Miller’s Children is a passionate and comprehensive look at the human consequences of the US Supreme Court’s decision...  Read More >>

Miller’s Children is a passionate and comprehensive look at the human consequences of the US Supreme Court’s decision...  Read More >>

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing,...  Read More >>

As with all social institutions, learning about law and how to relate to it is an important part of growing up....  Read More >>

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The result is a critical and theoretically informed understanding of prison escapes – which has sofar been absent...  Read More >>

Despite the fact that new perspectives, such as restorative justice, have emerged, the debates have largely focused...  Read More >>

Tracing the causes of elite deviance to the structure of U.S. power and wealth, this book introduces students to...  Read More >>